ARCTIC CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
AND CIRCUMPOLAR COOPERATION
An international workshop on the Center of Arctic Culture and Civilization
for the Russian North and Circumpolar Cooperation took place August 10 –
12, 2001, in Khatanga Settlement, Taimyr Autonomous Okrug.
The workshop’s main goal was to set up a Center of Arctic Culture and Civilization
for the Russian North and Circumpolar Cooperation in order to develop efficient
mechanisms for solving the problems of World Heritage conservation in the
Russian North and Arctic.
The Center will coordinate research and projects in the Taimyr Okrug, such
as:
aboriginal peoples in the North and their traditional livelihoods;
Taimyr flora and fauna, biodiversity conservation, ecology, mammoth
fauna and paleontology, geology and climate;
list of top-priority research projects;
applied projects (innovative poly-cultural system of education, modern
public utilities infrastructure, complex processing of agricultural products,
development of circumpolar tourism, etc);
better research facilities in the okrug (modern means of communication,
equipped premises and labs, etc.);
organization of workshops and conferences;
support for young researchers working on aboriginal peoples in the
North and other Arctic issues;
maintaining archives and supporting information exchange.
The Workshop approved the initiative of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug Administration
to establish the Center in Khatanga Settlement and to register it as a public
organization by September of 2001.
For more information about the Workshop or to contact the Center, please
send an e-mail to N.V. Lovelius:
